Word: skirl
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...silver "Bell of Mercy'' hung on a great oak tree. When small boys ring the bell and bring frogs with broken legs to her door she restores them to health. Comes the day when the hardhearted vet orders Thomasina to be chloroformed. She is buried to the skirl of bagpipes, but the vet's brokenhearted daughter won't speak to him. How the witch magically restores Thomasina to life, unveils the heart of gold under the cruel vet's tartan, and marries the man provides a fascinating and horrible example of how not to write...
...auld tale opens i' bauld fashion, as bonnie Charlie lands i' the Western hi'lands. He gathers the braw clansmen about him i' a unco handsome scene, verra probably set on the only cloudless day i' the recent climes o' Scotia. The skirl o' the pipes, the fearsom' whoops o' the hairy-legged hi'landers and the proud switchin's o' their kilts bode fair to make this a noble screening o' that mirk rebellion o' 1745. But e'en were there ha' sae much blather as the remains of the movie showed, 'twould be wee wonder that the Scotsmen...
...best partly uninteresting to the average reader, at worst wholly uninteresting even to members of the regiment concerned. But able Author Fergusson has done all that can be done to explain the Black Watch to the remotest commuter without ever failing in his duty as scrupulous recorder. The skirl of the Black Watch pipes, the pawky character of its men, and the family feeling that pervades and binds them-all these do much to raise The Black Watch above the level of mere soldierly documentation...
...Kerr, first Baron Inverchapel of Loch Eck and imminent British ambassador to the U.S. On the high road to Washington this week, Lord Inverchapel had a youthful bagpiper of the Clan Maclean in his personal retinue. Henceforth, state occasions at the British Embassy will be stirred by the bonny skirl of 200-year-old Highland pipes...
...sheep's stomach bag (with the windpipe hanging over the side of the pot to carry off impurities), stuff it with ground heart, liver, lights, suet, onions, oatmeal and seasoning, and boil again. The steaming, evil-looking haggis would be brought to the banquet table to the skirl of bagpipes and the words of Bobby Burns's ode to "the great chieftain o' the puddin' race...